A summarized description of the temples of village Gods of Tamil Nadu and those deities who rule the minds of the simple people living there by P.R.Ramachander

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Manjaneeswarar Ayyanar appan of Keezhputhupattu

Manjaneeswarar
Ayyanar appan of Keezhputhupattu

Compiled by

P.R.Ramachander

It is believed
that the power of Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu who had come as Mohini joined together to form a God. This form
looked similar to a cloud and it was
called Manjani by the villagers who saw it . This power became An Ayyanar and
got settled down in a forest in a village called Keezh Pudupattu which is near Pondicherry on the eastern express way connecting
Pondicherry and Madras. He along with
Gods Ganesa , Shiva, Sani as well as Ravana is believed to protect all the villages
surrounding Keezh Puthu pattu. Due to his original name of Manjani he is also called as Manjaneeswarar and also Ayyanarappan.His devotees believe
that he would be living in Puthupattu only till evening and as soon as the sun
sets, he starts going round the world
riding on his white horse all over the world to protect every one .He would come again to Puthupattu only next
day early morning., This Ayyanar temple was supposed to be built about 900 years back by one Kulothunga Chozhan. Like
some other Ayyanar temples , this Ayyanar has two consorts Poorna who is
the daughter of king of Ilavanji and Pushkala the daughter of king Bikaranjan.
And these consorts sit on both sides of the Ayyanar idol. Unlike many ayyanar temples, animals are not given in sacrifice to this
Ayyanar but are sacrificed to a folk
God called Malayalathan (Man of Malayalam)
who is at the entrance of this Ayyanar temple. People believe that the
king of Pandala came for hunting in this forest and found a child in this spot
and that child was adopted by the king and Named Manikandan .Manikandan
later was consecrated as Ayyappan in
Sabarai Malai of Kerala. Because of this, Many Ayyappa devotees
who go to Sabari Malai visit this temple also during their Annual
pilgrimage and believe that their
pilgrimage would not be complete without visiting Keezhpudupettai.

This Ayyanar is the
Family God of very large number of families. Many of these people pray to this
Ayyanar to lock the mouth of their
enemies who jeer at them . They write their prayer on a piece of paper and tie
it to the feet of this Ayyanar . Many other people who are slaves to bad habits
write on the chit of paper that they have left their bad habit. Since Ayyanar punishes those who tell a lie ,
many of these people do leave out their bad habits, Other forms of worship
include , making dolls of small white horses and keeping them at the Ayyanar temple . Preparing pongal and
offering to Ayyanar , Giving their hair to ayyanar , Offering goats and hen to Malayalathan etc,People who are being troubled by the
planet Sani(saneeswara) visit this
temple on every Saturday and get rid of their problems, The temple is open from
6.30 Am to 8 PM.

Additional
note:-

“Elderly devotees recall making the trip to the
temple by bullock cart, when priests and pilgrims had to brush aside branches on the narrow path to the shrine in the center of
the forest. Now a wide dirt road (tar in some places)connects all the
subsidiary shrines in the forest. Devotees can freely drive from the ECR
all the way up to the main temple gate, but on auspicious days (Mondays) they generally
park their vehicles along the road through the forest, inadvertently widening it
stillfurther. Devotees enter the forest from the west, passing two giant
horses, an anthill shrine (the first of atleast three), and the shrine of Veerabhadra, Aiyannarappan’s guardian deity, and his
Veerans. The
actualtemple to Aiyannarappan isa large complex built on the pattern of a typical
south Indian temple complete with brightly
paintedgopuram, cool inner sanctum, and verandah
equipped with metal railings to
direct pilgrim traffic. On Mondays in Adi(June-July)
vast crowds come to visit. “(http://www.scribd.com/doc/142441178/Meanings-of-Trees-and-Forests-in-India)

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Thank you lot for this valuable message, Kizhputhupattu ayyanarappan is our family god. But that temple not going. Please Share me some many photos in personal mail ID(cmanjaleeswaran@gmail.com or manjaleeswaran11@gmail.com)

Thank you lot for this valuable message, Kizhputhupattu ayyanarappan is our family god. But that temple not going. Please Share me some many photos in personal mail ID(cmanjaleeswaran@gmail.com or manjaleeswaran11@gmail.com)